G. H. L. Mallory Quotes

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

You have a wonderful opportunity here to not care about something that doesn’t matter to you. Please don’t miss out on it.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.

Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body.

Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about.

Arm yourself with as many options as possible before making your next move.

It's OK to tell your partner to objectify you. That's part of the fun of having a partner.

Kids know when they're getting yelled at and mocked, I can assure you.

Nothing good comes of reading other people's emails.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.

Enjoy your relationship with your boyfriend and don't worry about the people or situations you dream about. Once you wake up, they're over; let them go.

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually induced dentistry aversion.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

Tenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible.

If someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, give them a call or send them a letter to tell them how sorry you are and to let them know how much you care.

There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.

There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

If you’re so forgetful that you’re incapable of remembering that a co-worker isn’t pregnant on three separate occasions in as many months, I worry about your memory and cognition skills.

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.

Anyone who thinks it’s funny to name their network "Tom’sHugeEtc" is going to think it’s funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.

In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

It was more than love at first sight. For Mallory it was as if a dam had burst and the impounded emotions of a young lifetime had found immediate release.

He’s a man of few words except when it really counts. And when he does, every word has meaning.

You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine.

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people, ' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always, ' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.

Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.